NetBeans IDE has been my prefered IDE for the last 1.5 years. The reasons are several. OpenSource software, continuously extended and last but not least, it is free. While it doesn’t have as many features as some £3,000+ IDEs, it has enough to keep you busy.
The features that I find most useful and use every day because they speed up the development.
There is the DB explorer that lets me browse a data base to see the tables, data types, values and lets me execute any queries (including updates).